THE FORESTER. 



June, 



"15. How long is required before 

 burned range can be grazed again, in the 

 forest and outside? 



" 1 6. What is the relative effect of 

 Brazing before and after burning on the 



o o c* 



grass, the forest, and the soil ? 



" 17. What areas are most of ten burned ? 



" 18. What areas in the reserve are 

 grazed ? 



" 19. How many head are grazed in 

 the reserve ? 



"20. What proportion of this number 

 are assessed ? 



"21. What proportion of the head 

 owned and assessed in any one county are 

 grazed in the reserve? 



" 22. At how much are they assessed 

 per head? 



" 23. Are the owners and herders 

 usually citizens or aliens? 



" 24. What lands are best adapted to 

 grazing? 



"25. How long has grazing been car- 

 ried on in the reserve? 



" 26. Discuss handling during the year : 

 wintering, when driven into the moun- 

 tains, how herded in the mountains, when 

 driven out, the cost of herding, etc., 

 etc. 



" 27. Discuss the wool market and the 

 market for hides and meat, with reference 

 to the grazing industry in the reserve. 



" 28. How large an area in the reserve 

 is required to graze 1,000 head during one 

 season without over grazing, and what 

 number of head will the reserve safely 

 carrv ? 



j 



" 29. Would a system of leasing graz- 

 ing lands in the reserve work well, and ii 

 so, under what regulations? 



" 30. Is the grazing in the reserve more 

 or less valuable to adjacent communities 

 than the protection of the forest by the 

 prohibition of grazing?" 



J. D. W. French. 



John Davis Williams French, 'the son of 

 Jonathan French, a Vice-president of the 

 American Forestry Association, died at 

 Atlantic City on May 2, 1900. His 

 early home was in Roxbury, .where among 

 the productive and beautiful horticultural 

 surroundings of those days he acquired 

 his fondness for all out-of-door occupa- 

 tions. Mr. French obtained his early 

 training at the schools of Roxbury or Bos- 

 ton, and graduated at Harvard College in 

 the Class of 1863. After graduation he 

 served as a valued member of the Christian 

 Commission, with our army at the front. 



In his agricultural work, results upon 

 his land at North Andover, Essex County, 

 have proved him to be a skillful farmer, 

 horticulturalist and forester. He knew 

 the value in agriculture of the wise appli- 

 cation of intelligence thereto, and it was 

 his earnest endeavor to impart, and have 

 imparted, such ideas to those who could 

 or would be benefited by such applica- 

 tion and knowledge. 



He was an exhibitor and officer in the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society and a 

 leading member of its Library Committee, 



and its Committee on Lectures and Publi- 

 cations. 



His interest in all branches of forestry, 

 and his activity in "Village Improve- 

 ments," made him useful and influentia 

 in national as well as local forestry mat- 

 ters. His last effort in the cause of tree 

 culture was shown in his earnestness tc 

 complete the organization of the new Bos 

 ton Common Society, with the object o 

 aiding in the maintenance of Boston'; 

 ancient Common in the best possible con 

 dition. 



He was an earnest and active workei 

 with mind, body and purse in the cause o: 

 Christianity within the Episcopal Church 

 and outside of it ; and in many places wil 

 be greatly missed, and his place will b< 

 hard to fill. 



Mr. French was at one time a membe: 

 of the Boston Common Council fron 

 Ward 1 1 ; and at the time of his deatl 

 was a trustee of the State Agricultura 

 College ; President of the Bay State Agri 

 cultural Society; Vice-president of tin 

 American Forestry Association, and Vice 

 President of the Essex Agricultural So 

 ciety. In his will he bequeathed $2000 

 to the American Forestry Association. 



